[Software] Work fast on Linux, 10 keyboard shortcuts you should change

[FNX Magokiler]

One of the main objectives we seek when we sit in front of our computer and its operating system is to work as smoothly as possible. This is something that is extensible to most of the software that we use, so we are going to see how to achieve it if we use Linux.

Our productivity and user experience in daily work with a computer will depend to a large extent on how we handle the aforementioned system. For all this, the aforementioned experience is of enormous importance, as well as various configuration parameters that we ourselves carry out. All this in order to work on the Linux system and its corresponding programs in the most fluid and comfortable way possible.

In addition, this is something that we try to achieve both professionally in our work, and when we are at home sitting in front of the computer. We usually configure the software to adapt its functions to our needs. If we focus on the operating system as such, here we can use a series of keyboard shortcuts that will help us with these tasks.

As in other similar proposals such as Windows, Linux has a good number of key combinations. These allow us to carry out a multitude of actions in the software itself in a much faster and more fluid way. The truth is that memorizing all these keyboard shortcuts is quite a complicated task. Hence, we have the possibility of learning the most used, or even personalizing them. With this, what we want to tell you is that we have the possibility of modifying the default keyboard shortcuts and establishing new ones.

Customize these keyboard shortcuts in Linux to gain speed

 

The first thing we should know is that to change these Linux keyboard shortcuts that we mentioned, in the first place, we only have to click with the right mouse button on the desktop. This will allow us to access the operating system configuration window where we find a Keyboard or Key Combinations section. It must be said that in this section we find an extensive list of functions integrated into the system and their corresponding key combinations.

We only have to click on each of them in order to establish a new keyboard shortcut. Once we have reached this point, we are going to show you some of these combinations that we recommend you change to be faster and more productive in Linux. We are going to show you the default key combination and its functionality so that you can customize it to your liking.

Ctrl + Alt + Delete: close the current session.
Ctrl + Alt + T: Open a new terminal window.
Alt + Shift + Tab: quickly move between open applications.
Ctrl + Alt + up and down arrows: move between desktops.
Alt + F2: Open the Run box.
Alt + F8: resize windows.
Ctrl + ImpPnt: copy a screenshot to the clipboard.
Shift + Ctrl + Alt + R: make a recording of the desktop.
Alt + F4: close the active window.
Alt + F1: show the activities view.